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Real Racing 3 Hits Google Play, Prepare for 1.7GB of Burning Rubber

Today is just one of those days where it feels good to be a mobile-centric gamer. With the release of AVP for Android just hours ago, EA Games launched Real Racing 3 onto Google Play as well. For racing fans, it doesn’t get much better than this. With life-like graphics and physics, this is probably the closest you can get to driving an actual car, but still be sitting on your couch playing through your phone.

What makes Real Racing 3 different is a new multiplayer feature called Time Shifted Multiplayer™, allowing you to play your friends in real races even if they are offline. On top of that, these are fully licensed cars being raced on real tracks.

According to Google Play, you will need approx. 1.7GB of free space on your device to download the app. Have fun with that download! Their servers must be getting hammered because I’ve been trying to download it for the past 25 minutes.

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or you could root your phone and change the date/time and market to russia or something. Thats what I do when I get denied, usually works. Just don’t forget to change it back or you’ll be late for work…..I know.

Lance Spencer

Odd all these android phones not supporting this game yet my iPhone and iPad both run it beautifully. LOL @ fandroids

Managed to get it last night around 10 pm pacific time. Downloaded pretty quickly. While yes the in app purchases and wait times are somewhat annoying, I find them convenient for me in the sense that I won’t be hooked to my phone for more than maybe 15 minutes at a time. While my car gets repaired, I can go about my daily business and play again at a later time.

I’m playing it, and I have to say that I am hugely disappointed. The game feels great, the cars seem really good, and the tracks are impressive. However, the game is unplayable because everything takes time to do. Want to upgrade an engine, wait 6 minutes. Want to change your tires, wait 5 minutes. Need an oil change, wait 2 minutes. This is ridiculous. The game is free, because you have to spend crazy money on in-game purchases if you are the kind of person that likes to engage in their gameplay.

Well, yes, that is one way to do it. But I can’t stop what I am doing every half hour for a race. I like to take some time out of my day and play a game for an hour or so, and with this one, you can’t do that.

Someone needs to get off Walmart internet lmao took about 10 minutes if that to download

RoadsterHD1

So what is this compatible with???

C-Law

N4, N7, n10, s3, note 2, and gnex for sure

hkklife

Once again, an awesome-looking game is hindered by shoddy device compatibility and a huge download/install size. Meanwhile, we keep seeing 8/16Gb of internal storage (with an occasional 32Gb offering) and microSD slots are becoming increasingly scarce. And thanks to tiered data and caps, installing uninstalling games like this at will is not viable for anyone. Thanks, Google–due to your arrogance and Nintendo/Sony’s missteps, Apple will continue to absolutely dominate the mobile gaming sector.

Crazydog

Google doesn’t make Android hardware!

Tyler

and going along with your point Google doesn’t design games they just the place to find and download them. hkklife should complain to EA about the large size and I believe the compatibility problems will be fixed eventually considering last night when i saw this the post about this on AndroidPolice both of my devices were incompatible.

hkklife

EA Games is already on my S* list. I bought a pile of games for my Droid X during their big Christmas 2010 sale. They ended up re-listing updated builds all of those titles for sale at considerably higher prices (Tetris, Sims, NFS, FIFA and maybe 1 or 2 others) and effectively blocked out customers who had bought the “sale” versions. No point in complaining to them as you just get a canned response and led in circles.
Google doesn’t make hardware bug they heavily influence the rest of the industry with their lowest-bidder Nexus line which have always been storage-deficient relative to competing hardware. Plus, Google’s crazed push to abandon removable storage media & head for the cloud hasn’t helped matters.

poeddroiduser

GOOG doesn’t build the hardware, but they have “encouraged” device mfg. to drop SD card use, so they DO get the blame for that.

Once again, no compatility for the Droid DNA. I should have went with a samsung, there are so many apps that aren’t compatible with this phone, I’m sure its more to do with the screen resolution than anything else.

Blasmonk

I share your frustration but I’m hoping that it’ll get better once there are more 1080p phones available.

Game play, graphics, soundtrack all great. Overall, it exceeded my expectations. However, the constant waiting for cars to be repaired (car damage graphics very cool though), upgraded, delivered from the dealer is annoying. Most other apps (Asphalt 7) send you reminders to play more frequently, this game gives you a reason to turn it off after a 1/2 hr of play or so. However, not as much of an issue once you purchase more than 1 car. The 1 complaint about game play I have is the AI will ram you like crazy & squeeze you into the wall, have to time your pass when you know you will clear the opponent quickly. Physics by far best I’ve experienced on mobile. For a free game I can’t complain, to me its like playing Gran Turismo on my tablet (alot fewer cars obviously). If EA happens to read this, I’d prefer to pay $9.99 for a quality game like this (release a free tutorial of the game for people to try – I’d have paid right after the tutorial for the full game), rather than have an absurd amount of in app purchases. 1 final suggestion, have an in game profile (create an EA gamer profile that you can transfer to other EA games – like Open Feint) rather than have FB as the only way to login.

Graphics are great and I love the fairly stationary camera when you turn. Unfortunately, I’ve heard that this is one of this pay to play games that try to pinch lots of money out of you for small things.

Neomastermind

It downloaded quickly for me on my Nexus 4. This looks amazing.

Kevin Olson

Does it work with the Moga?

baconslayer09

Racing games are fine without a controller IMO.

Moga’s useful for FPS and sandbox games.

Jay Warren

I have a Galaxy Nexus (vzw), a Galaxy Note 2 (vzw), a Nexus 10 and a Nexus 7 and in the Play Store it says it’s not compatible with any of my devices… what gives…?

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